I'm curious about the new iPad.... but think I will wait a few months for any teething problems to be sorted out first.

I got stung with the iphone 4 reception issues... I'm a left hander so it was difficult not to hold the phone where my hands would cover several antennae at once.... so don't particularly want to go down that route again. Even more so with both new hardware and a whole new OS being done at once.

I'm sure it'll just be a larger ipad mini with the new form factor so it might be a good sideways/slightly upwards step from my ipad 3..... but still gonna wait all the same.

I have all the apple gear I'm quite the fanboy,as for the new iPad I'm 50 50 game said they would give me £215 trade in ,I might just buy the mini tho if it has a retina screen,getting rid of my Samsung galaxy and I'm going to buy the new iPhone 5s pay as go ,I have wifi in the house and at work only problem is the rolling £10 sim contract only gives you 100mb of data per month!

I notice you have a Virgin TIVO box - have you looked at their Sim only deals ? For example, they have an unlimited everything deal for £15 a month. And I believe it includes tethering too - mine certainly does.